There were other microcomputer BASICs besides Microsoft’s ... True BASIC was also designed to be the same language, no matter what computer you ran it on. “In 1983 or so, the microcomputer ...

Few (least of all nerdy me) will argue that learning a computer language as a kid doesn’t have merit. Grasping some of the basics of computer science by picking up a programming language is a ...

The language that made that all possible. They called it the Beginner’s All-purpose Symbolic Instruction Code—BASIC. Before BASIC, life in the computer programming world was complicated.

This computer programming app is so easy to use that even a kindergartener can do it. Researchers in Massachusetts have created a basic computer ... Scratch programming language for older kids.